Definition of spur

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Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.

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Turnsole :: Turnsole (a.) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Spurred :: Spurn-water (n.) A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
Pseudograph :: Pseudograph (n.) A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.
Hotspur :: Hotspur (n.) A rash, hot-headed man..
Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
Conspurcate :: Conspurcate (v. t.) To pollute; to defile.
Clementine :: Clementine (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law..
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Spurted :: Spurt (n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space..
Longspur :: Longspur (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States..
Spurtle :: Spurt (v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency..
Spurn :: Spurn (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
Extemporaneous :: Extemporaneous (a.) Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production..
Wivern :: Wivern (n.) A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs..
Sput :: Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
Wartwort :: Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis)..
Spurt :: Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur..
Spur :: Spur (n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
Upspurner :: Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.
Bogus :: Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit..
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